internet of things - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

choices as allowed by their models. Many different things can happen in this instance, so it's much more complex. We study two firms, H and L, where we assume that firm H has modules of higher quality than... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

idea—allowing people to live-cast on the internet their day-to-day activities—that was centered on technology. After many twists and turns, they arrived at their eventual business model of allowing gamers to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

June 2014
Case

Going Social: Durex in China

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Aaron Smith

When Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Multinational Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; China

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04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Brian Scudamore was uncomfortable with the idea of taking money from relatives, even though at one point his startup was about to fold for lack of cash. He explained, "My dad could have given me the... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

do this other thing that they find important," he says. In the book, Davidson's critic began to warm toward the network as he saw signs of morale improving in his own group and the posting View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

She's teaching domestic arts — skills that have gotten lost over the last few decades. She's extremely good at simplifying the steps required so that people can do these things despite the pressures of... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

on,” says McDonald, the Thai-Hi T. Lee Associate Professor. “They’re thinking ‘I would rather have money than not have money,’ right? Or ‘We'd rather have a high-status venture capitalist that everybody has heard of versus not.’ But... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

3.8 to 2.83. That measure of scarcity, says Keinan, may hold the key to why busyness is perceived the new luxury. “When we talk about traditional conspicuous consumption, it’s about consuming scarce and expensive View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

stopping there. We have applications out for some other things – like NFTs. (I had NFT FOMO last year when they were trending.)" Did you do anything fun to celebrate the trademark? "In addition to FOMO, I have also successfully protected... View Details

12 May 2021
News

The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

in common. SB: “We are astonishingly similar. We both came to the US from China for our undergraduate studies and we both started working here after college. Career-wise, both of us were in private equity—thank god we weren’t in the same... View Details

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Madison McIlwain

power of self-conviction in my own career and personal life. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? A tea pot. A deeper sense... View Details

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Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

situations that challenge his loyalties, conscience, and sense of duty. The book, which will be made into a movie, took Kim 20 years to write. Kim sees no conflict between the business and literary parts of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

December 2019
Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman

This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details

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15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

writing, one thing is guaranteed: you will get to know interesting people and become more knowledgeable about a topic of your interest. I can’t think of a better way to have... View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

Gazette What can people do now to start living their lives more authentically? Gino: Finding that moment of reflection, I think, is a good first step. And then to say, I’m going to organize my work or my day to make sure that I bring that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “There is a demand shock from consumers buying less, and a supply chain disruption in addition to the tariffs, which only makes things worse.”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

some members of each of the samples that have been studied. But these studies raise as many questions as they answer. Is there, for example, a tendency for some women leaders to excel in such View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but to the pricing behaviors View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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